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Phoenix Rebirth, another technology brought to you by the Microsoft Union
of companies, and by the technology of the fiftieth century. It costs a whopping, 50,000,000,000 Dollars for a
single tube. But such a tube can be reused thousands of times; it is humanity's current key to immortality. Once
a tube is created all you need is an account with M.U. so they can store your memories, they implant a few chips
in your brain, so that all of your thoughts, everything you feel with your senses is recorded. Then you simply
die in an accident, a interplanetary war, and they clone you with a DNA sample taken while the chips being implanted.
It's a fairly simple process. Some use it for travel, just eject yourself into space. And have yourself reborn
at the station nearest to your destination. Don't worry about having chips implanted again, because in fact their
already there, it's much easier to grow a clone with the chips than implant them. Additional services can be done
also, a permanent hair color alteration, breast size, Height, anything you desire, for a fee of course, you can
have altered DNA saved to your account, and changed anytime you wish. The charge will automatically be taken from
your bank account.
The ship vibrates strangely.
Lunar looks up and presses the chime for the intercom, but doesn't get a response He sighs, Then turns to the poorly
maintained passenger window, opening it with a pry-bar. The dam thing was too rusty to open by hand.
It's a small ship, one of the extremely high priced science vessels, with a few small fighters surrounding it.
Uninterested, Lunar closes the window, now even more plagued with boredom than before. This cheap cargo-ship, was
transporting his Armor. Lunar was planning to enter some small time championship fight over there.
He looks back to his hand-held P.C. And accessed the instructions his Armor had come with. Armor, the current top
of the line space weaponry, faster than a fighter's heavier weaponry. But such power was wasted on gambling for
the richer inhabitants of the universe. "Nobles" The name was refereed to with disgust and awe, Bob Gates
is a Noble, since he controls all but the outer rim tournaments, and businesses. Lunar rubbed his chin and sat
back into his seat. And slept the rest of the trip, back to earth.
Now, Earth isn't the mainstream planet it was back in 4000. When space travel just became profitable. Jupiter was
terraformed. And since there were rare minerals there, a new kind of Gold-rush started. The metal was black colored…
and about a hundred times harder than diamond. Jupiter was all mined out, so The miners moved on while the merchants
sold the stuff to earth and built a colony on a planet in another star system.
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